► I had a hard time reviewing this chapter because my dad was watching a movie with BANG BANG BANG GUNS while my brother was watching zombies .___.

But anyway~ Here you go :)

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“Chanyeol!” Kyungsoo exclaims in surprise while Jongin exclaims in delight not at all surprised like the rest.

Baekhyun stood there frozen with eyes wide because he stopped expecting, stopped hoping for Chanyeol to show up. He stopped expecting after dinner ended, stopped hoping when the movie began to play. The night was supposed to have ended just like that and not…

“If he’s not coming, then he would have told us earlier.”

Junmyeon’s words flashed through his head. So this is what he meant by ‘…Chanyeol will come.’.

Chanyeol greeted the group silently like he always does and slightly bows to Kyungsoo as an apology of his very very late unexpected arrival.

Their friends understood from the way Chanyeol and Baekhyun looked at each other that it’s best to leave them alone, and so they did. Of course not without saying and/or waving goodbye and wishing them a good night to which they hardly responded to.

The taller led Baekhyun to his car that was parked outside the gates while the brunette silently followed behind with a blank mind, not at all knowing what to think or brain filled with too many thoughts it was all a blur.

The car ride back to university was unusually silent, the air filled with unknown tension. Chanyeol tried to focus on the road but the faraway look Baekhyun had earlier, eyes that seemed to hold a lot of pain, he couldn’t help but worry.

Looking out the window, Baekhyun watched the surroundings pass by in a blur. His mind was still swirling with earlier thoughts but at the same time.. blank. Everything is too confusing and painful for him to form a coherent thought.

As the university closed in, he started to feel dread. For every minute that passed, as the sight of the university got bigger and bigger, Baekhyun wanted the car to stop. For some reason, the pain he felt inside increased tenfold and now felt like bursting. He has never felt so desperate before, so afraid, so lost, so.. not himself.

“I don’t want to go home.”

Chanyeol was startled that he nearly ran the red light they stopped in. He looked at Baekhyun who was still looking out the window, his voice dripped with evident desperation. He stayed silent and waited for the smaller to continue further but was met with silence.

Minutes passed and the university’s gates were already a distance away when Baekhyun spoke again, voice almost a whisper.

“I don’t want to go home… Please.”

Without another word, Chanyeol turns his car around and heads to his own place.

Anything but to be left alone, anything than to walk those dark streets, than to face random strangers.. anything than to go back to his apartment—to that empty dark room. Baekhyun wants anything but those right now. He felt afraid—afraid that if he gets home he would end up doing something he would regret, afraid of being left alone surrounded by darkness, afraid of… himself.

The desperation that he felt was too much for him to bare that he just stopped thinking and let his mouth do the talking, not at all caring what is to happen next.

♠♠♠

On second thought, maybe he shouldn’t have spoken.

59th floor, 1127 Park Avenue Residence.

Standing in front of the door, Baekhyun stood in awe. The last thing he expected was to be brought in a beautiful luxurious penthouse by the center district of the city. The last thing he expected to see was glass that stretched from one end to the other of one wall, floor to ceiling windows with the cityscape in view, in front of him. The last thing he expected to find out was that Chanyeol did not live in a luxurious house but instead in a luxurious penthouse 59 floors above the ground.

He was too distracted of the setting in front of him that he forgot all about his conflicting thoughts and walked straight to the large stretched window as if luring him in.

The view was majestic, absolutel